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yellow flowers and foliage like that of the common Mango. The 

 fruit is like a yellow Bachang but larger. 



The Rumeniya, Bonea burrnanica, Griff., is a large tree with 

 small dark green leaves and a small orange mango. It is abun- 

 dant in most villages. The fruit is popular with natives but is too 

 acid to eat raw. It is good however stewed with plenty of sugar. 



The Kundangan, B. macrophylla, has larger leaves and fruit, 

 the latter as large as a hen's egg, is yellow with a thin skin, very 

 juicy with a mango flavour. In appearance and texture it suggests 

 a plum, and is really a good fruit. The tree fruits heavily and is 

 very abundant in Malacca. Fruiting in July. 



The Cashew-nut, Anacardium occidentale, though doubtless in- 

 troduced from South America has established itself in many parts 

 of the Peninsula especially along the sea coasts where sandy. It 

 is a low much branched straggling tree with rather large leaves 

 and pink flowers. The fruit has a pear-shaped swollen red pe- 

 duncle on the top of which is the kidney-shaped fruit. The pedun- 

 cle is very juicy and somewhat sweet, with an astringent after 

 taste. It is rather a poor fruit on the whole, and the best way of 

 using it is to squeeze the peduncle into a glass, and add some 

 sugar so as to make a drink of it. The nut can be eaten raw or 

 parched, requiring, however, the black skin of the kernel to be first 

 removed. The fruit in the Straits is usually very small, and very 

 inferior to the Cashew of South America. 



The Hog plum, Spondias dulcis, a native of the Polynesian Islands 

 has been cultivated successfully in the Straits, and there were 

 formerly some good fruiting trees on the Chasseriau Estate in 

 Singapore. The fruit is something like a small Mango. It is called 

 Kadondong Jawa. 



LEGUMINOS/E. 



Cynometra cauliflora. L. The Nam-nam is a low tree or shrub' 

 which produces brown oblong fleshy pods from knots on the lower 

 part of the stem. They are two or three inches long, and about 

 half an inch thick or larger. The) 7 are eaten raw by natives some- 

 times but are best stewed. The flavour is somewhat acid. 



Dialium. The several special of Kranji produce small black 

 fruit ovoid and flattened or globose. They contain a single seed, 

 which is enclosed in a light brown pulp with a pleasant flavour. 

 The trees are often of enormous size, and are never cultivated 

 being of very slow growth but the fruits are collected and sold in 

 the markets in considerable quantities. 



The Tamarind, Tamarindus indicus, is probably a native of 

 Africa, but has long been cultivated in India, being recorded thence 

 from the earliest times. The tree is often to be seen in villages, 

 but seems to grow best on the sea coast. It attains a good size, 

 but seems here at least to be slow in fruiting. The fruit is much 

 used by the Malays in curries, but Europeans here rarely use them. 



fn the West Indies the pods are gathered when ripe, which is 



